I just want to know how a conversation starts to get to the point of "Hey, you want to record me having sex with a cow?" I want to know how they got that far in a conversation and neither of them thought it was strange.

By which, I do not mean to suggest that all gay people are into sex with
animals, of course, but I'm suggesting something else that happens with us
often.

In college, I met this guy who was a pedophile, and had a fascination for
military grade rifles (owned an M-16 somehow). When he learned that I am
gay, he felt comfortable telling me about his love of children, among other
very socially awkward admissions.

Of course, you can't really do anything when someone makes an admission like
that without risking some pain for yourself, but I tried to distance myself
from him as much as possible. Still, I found it really disturbing when I
saw him with about 5 children at a Denny's one day.